I had a play the other night that made me wonder. Here is the situation ASA Fast pitch 10U I am BU with no safety base at 1st: R1 on 3rd R2 on 2nd 2 outs. Batter hits ball to 3rd base who is playing in she fields it and throws to 1st. I am moving into the infield as the ball is thrown I set up and see F3 reach for the ball and fall forward with the ball going past her mitt and rolling past 1st base. I call BR safe. R1 and R2 scored. Now after action PU calls me to a conference he asks if I saw the BR shove F3. I said No. We had a discussion about whether F3 was in the path, did BR have room to avoid the collosion etc. and decided it was interference. We come out of the conference and declare BR out for interference. Question #1) Since my PU saw something I could not see from my angle was it correct to make the "delayed" interference call? (If he saw it I wish he would have called it right away!)
Question #2) Now that we have the BR out prior to reaching first does this nullify the two runs that scored on the play? I see two things. 1) If PU would have called interference when it happened we could have then judged if R1 had crossed the plate prior to interference (possible as runners were fast and getting a big lead on the pitch). But 1 thing still makes me think. Since the BR was put out prior to reaching 1st base safely for the 3rd out of the inning does this nullify the runs no matter when they crossed the plate??
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